Word: popenjoy
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...reprinted one of Trollope's finest, most appealing novels, The American Senator (with an enthusiastic preface by the late, famed bibliophile, A. Edward Newton, founder of the U.S.'s tiny Trollope Society). The sales were negligible. This year, Oxford University Press's reprinting of Is He Popenjoy? has been completely sold out, along with most other reprints of Trollope in Oxford's admirable World Classics Series. To crown the Trollope revival, Doubleday Doran has republished, at a fancy price and with lavish, Dickensian illustrations. Trollope's most popular novel, Barchester Towers...
...with all its in habitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of." But readers who do not buy Doubleday's expensive edition of this famed novel will find equal satisfaction - and perhaps a more subtle Trollope - in Is He Popenjoy?, an almost-forgotten work...
Written in Trollope's prime with the utmost deftness and simplicity, and not overloaded with characters, Popenjoy displays Trollope's astonishing powers of character portrayal in concentrated form...
...plot - which of two babies, one still unborn, is to succeed to the title of Lord Popenjoy - is not so much the point of the story as the point at which feverish uncles, aunts and in-laws collect, each to fight for his or her chosen Popenjoy and, in the process, to stand self-revealed...
Like all Trollope's best novels, Popenjoy exists both in and between the lines; like the age in which it was written, there is a smooth, romantic surface on which the most innocent girl may skate without danger, and, just below, the murky waters of worldliness...